put accents on stressed vowels

[Gene Shklar]

Here's a way to do it without modifying your phonetic keyboard.

In Word 2003:

* From the "Insert" menu, select "Symbol..."
* Select the "Symbols" tab at the top of the window pane (can we call it 
a fortochka?).
* From the "Font" pull-down, select a Unicode font like Times New Roman 
(or probably whatever font you are using for your Cyrillic characters in 
your document).
* From the characters displayed in the grid, click around to find the 
character called "Combining Acute Accent" (hex code 0301). As you click 
around in the grid, the selected character's name and shortcut key are 
displayed in the button left corner of the pane. It will be in the group 
of special characters just before the Greek and Cyrillic characters and 
immediately before a combining tilde character.
* Having selected the Combining Acute Accent character, you can either

  -- push the "Insert" button at the bottom right of the pane to insert 
the character into your text immediately after the character to be 
accented and the accent will then be displayed above that character (you 
can then select/copy the accent character to your clipboard and paste it 
(control-V) after other characters to be accented in your document); or

  -- push the "Shortcut Key..." button at the bottom left of the pane to 
define a shortcut key. This will pop up another pane with several 
fields. In the field labeled "Press new shortcut key:", type your 
desired shortcut-key sequence. I recommend something like Alt-A (hold 
down the Alt key while striking the A key). (Think "A is for Accent"). 
Then press the "Assign" button and the "Close" button.

Now, whenever you want to accent a character in Word, type the character 
followed by Alt-A, and the character will appear accented both on your 
screen and in your printed document.

Hope this helps.

Gene

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Elena.Kobzeva at rcc.edu>
To: <gene at shklar.com>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 9:25 AM
Subject: RE: put accents on stressed vowels


After I posted on SEELANGS, I realized that I hadn't provide enough 
information about the computer system that I use. Sorry.
I use Window XP 2000; Word 2003 and learning Word 2007 :),
I also use The Russian Phonetic keyboard layout to type Russian
Elena


________________________________________
From: Gene Shklar [gene at shklar.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 9:17 AM
To: Kobzeva, Elena
Subject: Re: put accents on stressed vowels

Windows or Macintosh?

Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: <Elena.Kobzeva at RCC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:20 AM
Subject: put accents on stressed vowels


Dear colleagues,
On a Russian keyboard, how can I put accents on stressed vowels?
Please respond to my directly to
elena.kobzeva at rcc.edu<mailto:elena.kobzeva at rcc.edu><mailto:elena.kobzeva at rcc.edu>
Thank you in advance.

Elena Kobzeva
elena.kobzeva at rcc.edu<mailto:elena.kobzeva at rcc.edu>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------= 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------